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Archive for January 1, 2009
Of Baramins and Baloney 10
January 1, 2009 by Dr. Mc.
Don
This is, as I’m sure you understand at some level, a simple God of the Gaps argument. It translates to “Current scientific thinking can’t explain this to my satisfaction, therefore God did it.” That is not logical; there is no logical linkage between those two clauses. There is, as I’m also sure you know, exactly NO objective evidence for this conclusion. There is, as I’m also sure you know, no known way to test it, since you have provided no mechanism. It is unscientific in the extreme.
Surely you can do better than that.
I received this book
http://www.critiqueofintelligentdesign.org/index.php
http://www.critiqueofintelligentdesign.org/index.php
to review. It is a sociological treatment of the argument from design, dating back to Epicurus and Democritus. Since you are a sociologist, you might find it interesting. I haven’t written my review yet, but I will do that today.
If you do read it, I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts about it.
Happy Thanksgiving
Mark
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